JANUARY

ROGUE NATION –

1001 FORGOTTEN ANNIVERSARIES THAT SHAME BRITAIN –

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1 JANUARY

• 1921 – Homes destroyed in four Irish villages as a reprisal for an IRA ambush

• 1987 – Documents belatedly expose British-Israeli collusion in the Suez crisis

2 JANUARY

• 1849 – Redcoats massacre hundreds of civilians in Multan

• 1947 – Monty on Palestine – Ignore world and Jewish opinion

3 JANUARY

• 1916 – British and French in secret agreement to divide the Middle East

• 1938 – First ever BBC Arabic News  – Arab executed for possessing a rifle

4 JANUARY

• 1858 – Indian man flogged, stuffed with pork and then hung

5 JANUARY

• 1869 – Up to 128 captured Maoris stripped naked and shot ‘like dogs.’

• 1943 – Churchill slashes shipping space for India as it faces famine

6 JANUARY

7 JANUARY

• 1953 – Top civil servant – end of empire means ‘we shall starve.‘

8 JANUARY

• 1925 – RAF bombing raids against flocks of grazing sheep

9 JANUARY

• 1916 – Four Arab villages burned to the ground
• 1955 – General Erskine advises against prosecution of Kenyan militia

10 JANUARY

• 1798 – General admits the futility of ‘acts of great violence’ in Ireland

• 1900 – Kitchener starts war of genocide against the Boers

• 1949 – British in Malaya start to detain and deport entire communities

11 JANUARY

• 1909 – Colonial Secretary warns against ‘immoral relations with native women’

12 JANUARY

• 1757 – British officers keep brief notes on town and village burning in Bengal

• 2002 – MI6 agents not required to prevent torture

13 JANUARY

• 1956 – Cypriot boys birched under emergency regulations

14 JANUARY

• 1915 – Arab villagers who run away ‘meet their end on the scaffold‘

• 1951 – Britain launches first ever herbicidal war in Malaya

• 2006 – Vilification of anti-imperialism MP who dresses up as a cat

15 JANUARY

• 1886 – Colonel practices his photography during extra-judicial executions

16 JANUARY

• 2002 – Worries about the wrong sort of spin over Guantanamo

17 JANUARY

1961 – MI6 arranges the assassination of Congo’s first prime minister

18 JANUARY

• 1859 – Officer recalls hunting down Indian mutineers “like vermin”

• 1921 – Reprisals in Ireland – convent burned – random civilians murdered

• 1978 – ECHR – British forces resorted to “inhuman and degrading treatment”

19 JANUARY

• 1788 – The first convicts arrive at Botany Bay, Australia

• 1839 – British naval ships reduce Aden to rubble

• 1917 – Cabinet has ‘no hesitation’ in approving use of gas against the Turks

20 JANUARY

• 1955 – Winston Churchill suggests ‘Keep England White’ as an election slogan

21 JANUARY

• 1920 – R.A.F. biplanes strafe and bomb Dervish settlements and sheep

• 1920 – Churchill – ‘The majority of the (Bolshevik) leaders are Jews.’

• 1964 – Our man in Aden authorises terror for terror policy

22 JANUARY

• 1979 – Labour government approves using depleted uranium in ammunition

23 JANUARY

• 1879 – Hundreds of wounded Zulus slaughtered at Rorke’s Drift

24 JANUARY

• 1901 – Famine at British concentration camp for Boer civilians

25 JANUARY

• 1952 – British army kills fifty Egyptian police officers

• 1971 – MI6 backs Idi Amin coup

26 JANUARY

• 1852 – Starvation used as a weapon of war against the Xhosa

• 1980 – Thatcher considers options for terror operations in Afghanistan

27 JANUARY

• 1923 – Iraqi villages and cattle subjected to punitive RAF bombing

28 JANUARY

• 1756 – Plantation overseer invents revolting punishment for a slave

• 1771 – News breaks of a famine in Bengal and ‘calamities’ for British investors.

29 JANUARY

• 1968 – Minister admits U.K. supplying Nigerian death squads with arms

• 2011 – Britain praises Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak

30 JANUARY

• 1892 – British led troops massacre hundreds of refugees

• 1972 – Fourteen unarmed Catholics shot dead by the army

31 JANUARY

• 1915 – General adamant Indian officers ‘simply not fit to lead his men’

• 1918 – Gertrude Bell – ‘We must be lodged’ but pities ‘the luckless ejected ones.’

• 1973 – UDA remains legal despite murders and arms stockpiles

• 2002 – Just 2% believe Blair’s war “will make the world safer” claim